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 eCHO news is your bi-weekly wrap up of all things eBPF and Cilium. If you want to keep up on the latest in cloud native networking, observability, and security this is your quelle

2nd May 2023

 

Take an episode off for KubeCon almost seems like a mistake since so much has happened in the 4 weeks since the last time the newsletter went out. The biggest news was the first ever CiliumCon and the launch of Cilium Mesh at KubeCon. If you weren't able to attend KubeCon this time, let me tell you, the buzz around Cilium and eBPF was incredible! I was so motivated that I almost wanted to skip my vacation and go right back to work (still had to bike back from Amsterdam though). My colleague Nico has a great wrap up blog post that captures the sentiment of the event, in short, it rocks!

 

I have a lot else to catch up on after almost two weeks out so let's 🐝 gin!

The Technical

Kubernetes Goat - Cilium Tetragon

"Interactive Kubernetes Security Learning Playground" now covering Tetragon

 

Hubble datasource plugin for Grafana

"Hubble datasource plugin allows querying data produced by Hubble"

 

CiliumCon Videos

Spending your time in the hallway track? Catch up on all the videos now

 

EBPF TC filters for egress traffic

"also by ruthless copying taking inspiration from the cilium codebase, I was able to put together the right enchantment"

 

Detection of Denial of Service Attack in Cloud Based Kubernetes Using eBPF

"In this research" eBPF goes to university

 

edgebit-agent

eBPF used to submit realtime SBOMs and dependency usage information to EdgeBit

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The Ecosystem

The Silent Platform Revolution: How eBPF Is Fundamentally Transforming Cloud-Native Platforms

"The next decade of infrastructure software will be defined by platform engineers who can use eBPF and the projects that leverage it to create the right abstractions for higher-level platforms"

 

Announcing the eBeeDex!

Gotta catch 'em all

 

Cilium Mesh – One Mesh to Connect Them All

"a new universal networking layer to connect workloads and machines across cloud, on-prem, and edge" basically CNI + Cluster Mesh + Transit Gateway + Ingress/Egress

 

eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools

"just taking eBPF observability tools as-is and using them for security monitoring would be like driving your car into the ocean and expecting it to float"

 

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

"now available to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) customers as a one-click upgrade"

 

Netreap: Bringing Cilium to the World Outside Kubernetes

Dive deeper into the Cilium on Nomad story

 

Meet Flora: the eBPF observability agent that was born to outperform

A launch blog with benchmarks "Outperforming Datadog By Over 3X"

 

eBPF Explained: Why it's Important for Observability

Yet Another eBPF Monitoring Solution (YAEMS), not quite the same ring as YAML

 

Sidecarless eBPF service mesh sparks debate

Love to see the debate evolving to have Cilium as a key player now

 

How Ikea, The New York Times and Bloomberg use open source for cloud native networking and security

A nice wrap up of CiliumCon, can't wait for the next edition!

 

Learning eBPF - Liz Rice - ASW #235

Security Weekly interviews Liz Rice about her book

 

Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms

eBPF is even a checkbox for Gartner now

 

Cilium and Hubble for Kubernetes

"If you are looking for a cloud-native network observability solution, Cilium and Hubble should be considered a way-to-go"

 

Accelerating DDoS Mitigation with eBPF in F5 NGINX App Protect DoS

Another day another eBPF product launch with a sprinkle of machine learning

 

Software Observability & Debugging in 2023

A venture capitalist's point of view on why eBPF is important for the future of observability

 

What is eBPF & what it means for Kubernetes monitoring

Love how this intro brings in the Kubernetes context

 

Unlocking the Power of Programmable Data Planes in Kubernetes with eBPF

"eBPF is a crucial technology" not much more to say :D 

 

Container Connectivity, and Networking in the Cloud-Native Era with Isovalent Cilium

A quick intro to Cilium, just missing that it is a CNCF project 😅

 

A fine-grained network traffic analysis with Millisampler

More eBPF work from Meta engineering

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The How To

Migrating to Cilium

"With the use of the new Cilium CRD CiliumNodeConfig, running clusters can be migrated on a node-by-node basis, without disrupting existing traffic or requiring a complete cluster outage or rebuild."

 

Configure Azure CNI Powered by Cilium in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Start running Cilium in a Microsoft near you

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The Events

WTF is SRE?

Find out more about Hubble on May 4th in London

 

Cilium Workshop with Isovalent & Eficode - Helsinki

May 9th

 

Cilium Workshop with Isovalent & Eficode - Copenhagen

May 11th

 

Virtual Workshop: Golden Signals with Hubble & Grafana
May 16th Online

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The Videos

eCHO Episode 87:

Advanced Gateway API Use Cases

eCHO Episode 87: Advanced Gateway API Use Cases

  

eCHO Episode 88:

KubeCon Wrap-up

eCHO Episode 88: KubeCon Wrap-up

Upcoming Stream

eCHO Episode 89: Stack Walking

Add to your calendar

The Tweet of the Week

Tweet: ebpf is the ChatGPT for infra right now, seems like every new infra (especially products with node / app level info) startup is leveraging ebpf one way or another

As always, if you’ve seen a blog post, a tool, or anything else eBPF or Cilium related that you think the rest of the community should hear about, send them my way. You can either hit reply or join the #echo-news channel on Cilium Slack. You can also find all of the past episodes on the website.

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Written and sent by Bill Mulligan. Any feedback is welcome!

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